Monerans: The kingdom of single-celled organisms without a cell nucleus.
One example is the Streptomyces rimosus. This moneran can be found in the soil. Escherichia coli is commonly know as E. coli, this moneran is carried in the wind or it can be found in animal's intestines.
Escherichia coli
Both of these monerans are in the desert climate.
Protists:The kingdom of mostly single-celled organisms with a cell nucleus and organelles.
One example of protists is Trypanosoma brucei. This is know somtimes as African sleeping sickness, which can be found in the blood streams in humans and is very harmful. This mostly affects people in Africa. Naegleria gruberi can be found in the soil of the Negev Desert in Israel.
Naegleria gruberi
Trypanosoma brucei
Fungi: Multi-celled with no chlorophyll. Fungi absorb nutrients. Chaetomium brasiliense is a fungus. It can be found in soil, air or plant debris. It can be found in multiple deserts.
Chaetomium brasiliense
Lichen is found in the desert also. This fungus can be found on rocks. The lichen below can be found in Austrailian desert along with other deserts, it's scientific name is Flavoparmelia rutidota.
Flavoparmelia rutidota
PLANTS
Plants: Multi-celled with cell walls and chlorophyll and produce their own food.
There are 10 divisions of plants out there. Several Mosses, Liverworts, Horsetails and Ferns. The last 2 divisions are Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, these reproduce with seeds while the other 8 reproduce with spores.
Here is the Angiosperm Opuntia engelmannii, or Engelmann's Prickly Pear. It is found in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. Knigdom: Plantae
This is a Gymnosperm commonly called Mormon Tea because Mormons used it in their tea as a medicine. It's real name is Ephedus viridis. This is found in Utah.
This would be a Bryum argenteum. More commonly known as silvergreen bryum moss. It lives in every continent except Asia and may even live in your backyard!
Animalia is the kingdom of organisms that eat other organisms and have complex minds and bodies.
Harris's Antelope Squirrel is an omnivore. It eats carrion, arthropods, Mormon Tea plant and Opuntia cacti. It can be found in the Sonoran Desert of Southern California
The Antelope Squirrel
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Ammospermophilus
species: harrisii
The Creosote Bush Grasshopper only eats the plant Creosote Bush. This herbivore lives in Southern California.
The Mojave Desert Sidewinder is found in the Mojave Desert and some deserts in Colorado. This carnivore eats small mammals, lizards, and sometimes birds.
The Sonoran Desert Toad lives in the Sonoran Desert, Arizonia, New Mexico, and Mexico. This carnivore eats small invertibrae and insects.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
speices: alvarivs
This worm is called Giant Intestinal Roundworm. It lives in people who eat termite mounds in the deserts of Kenya. This carnivore lives in your liver, heart, blood stream, and small intestine. You can find people with this worm in places with poor sanitation or places where they use human feces as fertilizer. This worm eats you and can be fatal.
The worm, Argilophilus plutellus, is an earthworm or segmented worm. It eats decaying plants and animals making it a small decomposer. It is found in the Western half of North America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Haplotaxida
Family: Megascolecidae
Genus: Argilophilus
species: plutellus
The species Onchocerca volvulus is a nasty tapeworm that kills many worldwide including Saharan Africa, South America and Central America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Spirurida
Family: Onchoceridae
Genus: Onchocerca
species: volvulus
The Oregon Giant Earthworm is a segmented worm that eats decaying plants and animals making it a decomposer. As it's name suggests it can be found in the Western U.S. It's scientific name is Driloleirus macelfreshi.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Oligochaeta
Order: Haplotaxida
Family: Megascolecidae
Genus: Driloleirus
species: macelfreshi
The Whipworm or Trichuris trichiura is a mean, human eating, carniverous, round worm. It lives almost everywhere in the world.
The Giant African Snail lives south of the Sahara, United States, and Mexico. These snails can be kept as pets, eating fruit and plants. This animal is a herbivore.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinidae
Genus: Achatina
speices: fulica
The Cheetah can be found in many places. In the desert regions it can be found in sub Sahara in Africa. It feasts on hoofed animals and rabbits, making this animal a carnivore.
Bobcats live the Calfornia deserts. This is an omnivore because it consomes grass, fruit, deer, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertibrates.
This Cane Toad lives in the deserts of Australia. This is an omnivore who eats whatever it can fit in its mouth, mainly toads, mammals, beetles or things that don't move.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
speices: marinus
The Mojave Rattlesnake lives in the northern most deserts of Colorado, and the Mojave Desert. This is a carnivore who eats rodents, lizards, snakes, birds (and their eggs,) and insects.
This carinvore eats rats, squirrels, mice, chipmonks, pocket gophers, reptiles, insects, earthworms, eggs, birds, and dead animals. This American Badger or Taxidae taxus lives in the northern coast deserts of California.
The Mule deer lives in the desert of southwest United States. This herbivore eats herbs, vines, grass, twigs, fruit of cactus, and leaves. It's scientific name is Odocoileus hemionus.
In the deserts of New Mexico and Kansas lives the Swift Fox. The Vulpes velox is a omnivore, feasting on small mammals, fish, birds, insects, berries, grasses, repties, and amphibians.
Desert Bighorn Sheep or Ovis canadensis is a herbivore. They eat Mormon Tea plant, cactus, twigs, grasses, and shoots. They are found in deserts of many states including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Colorado.
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Ovis
species: canadensis
Mourning Doves are omnivores and will eat snails, insects and grasses. They are found in and around the Mojave Desert. They are known to ecologists as Zenaida macroura.
The Chuckwalla is herbivore, this is because it eats wildflowers and fruit. The Sauromalus ater can be found in the Mojave desert, Sonoran, and in the deserts of Colorado.
This Desert Tortoise lives in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. It eats herbs, grass, shrubs, cacti and their flowers. This makes this reptile a herbivore!
The disease Dracunculiasis is carried by the parasite tape worm Dracunculus medinesis or Guinea Worm. It eats (and lives in) many mammals of the African desert.
Guinea Worm
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Camallinida
Family: Dracunculidae
Genus: Dracunculus
species: medinesis
The Mountain lion or Puma is one of the largest predators of North America. Puma concolor is a omnivore because it eats mule deer, rabbits, fish, grass, and berries. It can be found all over North America.
Puma
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Puma
species: concolor
Mojave Collared Lizards eat bugs and arachnids such as the fig beetle. Its' scientific name is Chrotaphytus bicinctores. This carnivore lives in the Mojave Desert.
Mojave Collared Lizard
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Chrotaphytidae
Genus: Chrotaphytus
species: bicinctores
Jackrabbits or Lepus californicus eat most vegetation though they prefer grass and forbes. Jackrabbits live in the Mojave Desert
Jackrabbit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
species: californicus
Fig beetles (known to the scientific community as Cotinis texana) eat figs and other ripe fruits. Thus they are a threat to Southern farmers. This is a herbivore, and lives in the Mojave desert.
Fig Beetle
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Cotinis
species: texana
The Dipodomys deserti or Desert Kangaroo Rat can hop like a kangaroo but it lives in the Sonoran Desert, not Australia. It is a herbivore and eats seeds, leaves, buds and fruit.
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Monerans: The kingdom of single-celled organisms without a cell nucleus.One example is the Streptomyces rimosus. This moneran can be found in the soil. Escherichia coli is commonly know as E. coli, this moneran is carried in the wind or it can be found in animal's intestines.
Escherichia coli
Both of these monerans are in the desert climate.
Protists: The kingdom of mostly single-celled organisms with a cell nucleus and organelles.
One example of protists is Trypanosoma brucei. This is know somtimes as African sleeping sickness, which can be found in the blood streams in humans and is very harmful. This mostly affects people in Africa. Naegleria gruberi can be found in the soil of the Negev Desert in Israel.
Naegleria gruberi
Fungi: Multi-celled with no chlorophyll. Fungi absorb nutrients.
Chaetomium brasiliense is a fungus. It can be found in soil, air or plant debris. It can be found in multiple deserts.
Lichen is found in the desert also. This fungus can be found on rocks. The lichen below can be found in Austrailian desert along with other deserts, it's scientific name is Flavoparmelia rutidota.
PLANTS
Plants: Multi-celled with cell walls and chlorophyll and produce their own food.
There are 10 divisions of plants out there. Several Mosses, Liverworts, Horsetails and Ferns. The last 2 divisions are Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, these reproduce with seeds while the other 8 reproduce with spores.
Here is the Angiosperm Opuntia engelmannii, or Engelmann's Prickly Pear. It is found in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona.
Knigdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Cactaceae
Genus: Opuntia
species: engelmannii
Kingdom: Plantae
Sub Kingdom: Tracheobionta
Divison: Pteridophyta
Class: Filicopsida
Order: Polypodiales
Family: Pteridaceae
Genus: Astrolepis
species: cochisensis
This is a Gymnosperm commonly called Mormon Tea because Mormons used it in their tea as a medicine. It's real name is Ephedus viridis. This is found in Utah.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Gnetopsida
Order: Ephedrales
Family: Ephedraceae
Genus: Ephedus
species: viridis
This desert plant is a horsetail.
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Equisetophyta
Class: Equisetopsida
Order: Equisetales
Family: Equisetaceae
Genus: Equisetum
species: giganteum
Desert spike moss is also know as Selaginella eremophila! This plant can be found in
California, Arizona, and New Mexico!
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Lycopodiophyta
Class: Lycopodiopsida
Order: Selaginellales
Family: Selaginellaceae
Genus: Selaginella
species: eremophila
This is a liverwort! It's scientific name is Marchantia berteroana. Which is found in Antarctica.
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Hepatophyta
Class: Marchantiopsida
Order: Marchantiales
Family: Marchantiaceae
Genus: Marchantia
species: berteroana
This would be a Bryum argenteum. More commonly known as silvergreen bryum moss. It lives in every continent except Asia and may even live in your backyard!
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Bryophyta
Class: Bryopsida
Order: Bryales
Family: Bryaceae
Genus: Bryum
species: argenteum
Animalia is the kingdom of organisms that eat other organisms and have complex minds and bodies.
Harris's Antelope Squirrel is an omnivore. It eats carrion, arthropods, Mormon Tea plant and Opuntia cacti. It can be found in the Sonoran Desert of Southern California
The Antelope Squirrel
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Sciuridae
Genus: Ammospermophilus
species: harrisii
The Creosote Bush Grasshopper only eats the plant Creosote Bush. This herbivore lives in Southern California.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Family: Acrididae
Genus: Bootettix
speices: argentatus
The Mojave Desert Sidewinder is found in the Mojave Desert and some deserts in Colorado. This carnivore eats small mammals, lizards, and sometimes birds.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptila
Order: Squamata
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Crotalus
speices: crerastes
The Sonoran Desert Toad lives in the Sonoran Desert, Arizonia, New Mexico, and Mexico. This carnivore eats small invertibrae and insects.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
speices: alvarivs
This worm is called Giant Intestinal Roundworm. It lives in people who eat termite mounds in the deserts of Kenya. This carnivore lives in your liver, heart, blood stream, and small intestine. You can find people with this worm in places with poor sanitation or places where they use human feces as fertilizer. This worm eats you and can be fatal.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Ascaridida
Family: Ascarididae
Genus: Ascaris
speices: lumbericoides
The worm, Argilophilus plutellus, is an earthworm or segmented worm. It eats decaying plants and animals making it a small decomposer. It is found in the Western half of North America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Clitellata
Order: Haplotaxida
Family: Megascolecidae
Genus: Argilophilus
species: plutellus
The species Onchocerca volvulus is a nasty tapeworm that kills many worldwide including Saharan Africa, South America and Central America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Spirurida
Family: Onchoceridae
Genus: Onchocerca
species: volvulus
The Oregon Giant Earthworm is a segmented worm that eats decaying plants and animals making it a decomposer. As it's name suggests it can be found in the Western U.S. It's scientific name is Driloleirus macelfreshi.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Annelida
Class: Oligochaeta
Order: Haplotaxida
Family: Megascolecidae
Genus: Driloleirus
species: macelfreshi
The Whipworm or Trichuris trichiura is a mean, human eating, carniverous, round worm. It lives almost everywhere in the world.
Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: Nematode
Class: Adenophorea
Order: Trichurida
Family: Trichuridae
Genus: Trichuris
species: trichiura
The Giant African Snail lives south of the Sahara, United States, and Mexico. These snails can be kept as pets, eating fruit and plants. This animal is a herbivore.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Achatinidae
Genus: Achatina
speices: fulica
The Cheetah can be found in many places. In the desert regions it can be found in sub Sahara in Africa. It feasts on hoofed animals and rabbits, making this animal a carnivore.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Acinoryx
speices: jubatus
subspeices: hecti
Bobcats live the Calfornia deserts. This is an omnivore because it consomes grass, fruit, deer, rodents, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertibrates.
Bobcat
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Lynx
species: rufus
The Sand Cat is native to the Sahara desert, and all over North Africa. This is a carnivore who eats small mammals, insects, birds, and lizards.
Sand cat
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Felix
species: margarita
The White Desertsnail lives in the deserts of California. This herbivore eats moss and lichens.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Stylommatophora
Family: Helminthoglyptidae
Genus: Ermarionta
species: immaculata
This carnivore eats birds, small mammals, insects, earthworms, reptiles, and amphibians. The American Kestrel Lives in the deserts of Califonia.
American Kestrel
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiform
Family: Falconidae
Genus: Falcon
speices: sparverivs
This Cane Toad lives in the deserts of Australia. This is an omnivore who eats whatever it can fit in its mouth, mainly toads, mammals, beetles or things that don't move.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Anura
Family: Bufonidae
Genus: Bufo
speices: marinusThe Mojave Rattlesnake lives in the northern most deserts of Colorado, and the Mojave Desert. This is a carnivore who eats rodents, lizards, snakes, birds (and their eggs,) and insects.
Mojave Rattlesnake
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptila
Order: Squamata
Family: Viperidae
Genus: Crotalus
species: scutulatus
This carinvore eats rats, squirrels, mice, chipmonks, pocket gophers, reptiles, insects, earthworms, eggs, birds, and dead animals. This American Badger or Taxidae taxus lives in the northern coast deserts of California.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Mustelidae
Genus: Taxidae
species: taxus
The Mule deer lives in the desert of southwest United States. This herbivore eats herbs, vines, grass, twigs, fruit of cactus, and leaves. It's scientific name is Odocoileus hemionus.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: CervidaeGenus: Odocoileus
species: hemionus
This termite, Gnathamitermes tubiformans, is a decomposer, it decomposes wood. This bug lives in the deserts of middle America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Isoptera
Family: Termitidae
Genus: Gnathamitermes
species: tubiformans
In the deserts of New Mexico and Kansas lives the Swift Fox. The Vulpes velox is a omnivore, feasting on small mammals, fish, birds, insects, berries, grasses, repties, and amphibians.
Swift fox
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Vulpes
species: velox
The Red Tail Hawk or Buteo jamaicensis lives all over the desert in North America. This bird is a carnivore because it eats small rodents and snakes.
Red Tail Hawk
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Falconiform
Family: Accipitridae
Genus: Buteo
species: jamaicensis
Desert Bighorn Sheep or Ovis canadensis is a herbivore. They eat Mormon Tea plant, cactus, twigs, grasses, and shoots. They are found in deserts of many states including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and Colorado.
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Genus: Ovis
species: canadensis
Mourning Doves are omnivores and will eat snails, insects and grasses. They are found in and around the Mojave Desert. They are known to ecologists as Zenaida macroura.
Mourning Dove
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: ChordataClass: Aves
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Zenaida
species: macroura
The Chuckwalla is herbivore, this is because it eats wildflowers and fruit. The Sauromalus ater can be found in the Mojave desert, Sonoran, and in the deserts of Colorado.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: SquamataFamily: Iguanidae
Genus: Sauromalus
species: ater
South of the Mexican border and into the desert of California, lives the Wild Burro. This mammal is a herbivore and eats grass and forbes.
Wild Burro
Kingdom: AnimaliaPhylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
species: asinus
This Desert Tortoise lives in the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts. It eats herbs, grass, shrubs, cacti and their flowers. This makes this reptile a herbivore!
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: ChordataClass: Reptila
Order: Chelonia
Family: Testudinidae
Genus: Gopherus
species: agassizii
The disease Dracunculiasis is carried by the parasite tape worm Dracunculus medinesis or Guinea Worm. It eats (and lives in) many mammals of the African desert.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Order: Camallinida
Family: Dracunculidae
Genus: Dracunculus
species: medinesis
The Mountain lion or Puma is one of the largest predators of North America. Puma concolor is a omnivore because it eats mule deer, rabbits, fish, grass, and berries. It can be found all over North America.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Puma
species: concolor
Mojave Collared Lizards eat bugs and arachnids such as the fig beetle. Its' scientific name is Chrotaphytus bicinctores. This carnivore lives in the Mojave Desert.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Chrotaphytidae
Genus: Chrotaphytus
species: bicinctores
Jackrabbits or Lepus californicus eat most vegetation though they prefer grass and forbes. Jackrabbits live in the Mojave Desert
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
species: californicus
Fig beetles (known to the scientific community as Cotinis texana) eat figs and other ripe fruits. Thus they are a threat to Southern farmers. This is a herbivore, and lives in the Mojave desert.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Cotinis
species: texana
The Dipodomys deserti or Desert Kangaroo Rat can hop like a kangaroo but it lives in the Sonoran Desert, not Australia. It is a herbivore and eats seeds, leaves, buds and fruit.
KIngdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Rodentia
Family: Heteromyidae
Genus: Dipodomys
species: deserti
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